Method of Management of Maintenance Activities for Vehicles

1. A method of maintaining a vehicle comprising the steps of: entering maintenance activity data for a model of an vehicle into a database; entering the maintenance activity data relating to an individual vehicle into the database; modifying the schedule for the maintenance activities based upon the usage severity of the vehicle between the last scheduled maintenance activities and the current maintenance activities; accessing the database and identifying items on the vehicle, which require maintenance activities; scheduling maintenance activities; and documenting the maintenance activities.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein the step documenting maintenance activities includes the steps of: confirming that the maintenance tasks have been properly performed; and, generating maintenance compliance reports on the particular vehicle.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2 wherein the step of scheduling maintenance activities, includes the steps of: identifying maintenance tasks to be performed; entering the specific work instructions necessary to accomplish the tasks; and creating open maintenance task cards for the vehicle.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein the step of documenting the maintenance activities includes the steps of: entering and updating inspection information into the database; entering working document information into the database; entering status into the database for review; determination if inspection requirements are satisfied; entering the maintenance findings and actions; and entering the future maintenance requirements.

5. A method of maintaining a vehicle having previously determined maintenance history and scheduled maintenance activity requirements comprising the steps of: modifying the schedule for the maintenance activities based upon the usage severity of the vehicle between the last scheduled maintenance activities and the current maintenance activities; scheduling items for maintenance, performing and monitoring the scheduled maintenance on the item on the vehicle; and documenting, via electronic database, that the maintenance activity has been property performed on the vehicle.

6. The method as set forth in claim 5 wherein the step of documenting that the maintenance activities have been properly performed includes the steps of entering and update inspection information into the database; entering working document information into database; entering status into database for review; determining if inspection requirements are satisfied; entering the maintenance findings and actions; and completing work summary reports.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1 including the step of monitoring performance of the scheduled maintenance tasks.